The Helpsystem is a html-mirror of the Helpsystem I am adding to Squeak
inside Squeak.
One way to regard it is as an update of the class comments in Squeak.
Inside Squeak the Helpsystem uses a Hypertext tool of Squeak, that is more
powerful than can be displayed in html on this site. See Remark 1 below.
To save space I have not used the normal page format on this site. In each
class comment there is a picture of the Squeak logo that when clicked leads to
the present file.
The Helpsystem starts here, as in Squeak: Help.
REMARK 1
THE HELPSYSTEM IS RATHER USELESS WITHOUT A RUNNING SQUEAK
ON YOUR COMPUTER. IT IS REPRODUCED HERE ONLY FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES.
REMARK 2
The three main illustrative purposes are
(1) for people with some knowledge of Squeak or Smalltalk: To see what the new
comments are like and
(2) for people with some knowledge of programming: To see what the classes of
Squeak are like
(3) to have a useful html-survey of all the text involved in all of the
Helpsystem.
REMARK 3
The Helpsystem is a first version in transit (and will be changed soon), and
is meant to be read inside Squeak. (To repeat: Without either Squeak running
on your computer or a fair knowledge of programming the Help
is of very little use or instruction to you.)
REMARK 4
The internal links in the files on this site have (mostly) not been added yet,
and will be added (if at all) only if a first version has been put on line.
REMARK 5
There will be changesets that contain the new comments made available soon (when
I have for the first time moved through ALL classes). These changesets will be
also provisional, since after that I will review my comments.
REMARK 6
The reason to do this - writing new comments for Squeak's classes - are (1)
that I think this is VERY
necessary to properly document Squeak - see my
Squeak-section (2) that in fact this has never
been done properly (according to my standards), neither in Smalltalk nor
Squeak - see my Squeak-section - and (3)
that nobody else is doing it - as Smalltalk-programmer Travis Griggs has
summarized a general moral fact of life: "10 2 letter words: "If it is
to be it is up to me".